Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friedman cited a report indicating that if the government spent an additional four to six million dollars a year on military salaries, it could attract enough men into the army to end the draft, and still maintain a three million man force...
...good academic standing with his school." If "a full-time students" scores above 70 on the draft exam he will be safe as an undergraduate, while he must score above 80 to continue through graduate school. The other route lets a student stay in college if he can maintain an average which places him in a certain upper fraction of the class...
...Instead of narrow-mindedly designing planned obsolescence and physical deterioration into manufactured goods to maintain the growth of our economy, why can't we invest a fraction more of our great personal and corporate income in the futures of the underprivileged in this country and in some of the underdeveloped nations...
With such aids, and by installing an 8-ft. telescoping handrail between Gemini and Agena while the crafts were docked, Aldrin was able to maintain his equilibrium. With frequent two-minute rests, he first moved forward to the Agena and secured its 100-ft. tether to Gemini's docking bar, an assignment that had proved exasperating and difficult for unanchored Gemini 11 Astronaut Richard Gordon...
...people that prefer to devise their own political philosophies, or to heckle prominent statesmen, but to apply the tools of our democracy. The SDS has done this; they have reached as many people as possible by legal means. The only alternative that they can rightfully take is to maintain a status quo -- continue their referendums, meetings, and pamphlets; and hope their theories begin to influence a larger number of people. Until this happens, their hands are literally tied by the rules of the democracy they profess to maintain...